Books: The Moon's Dark Side

Reading through a big collection of short stories is like staying too
long at a noisy party. Individual impressions blur; one woman waiting
uncertainly with an unlit cigarette becomes all women with that
mannerism, and a silly remark made once too often makes fools,
unfairly, of all who repeat it. Similarly, the impression persists that
at least one-quarter of these Conrad Aiken stories begin with
characters waking up in the morning, and that most of his women have
"the blackest and fiercest eyes I...